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ATTORN EYS Patented Sept. 18, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE WINDOWSHUTTER Arie den Dulk, Sin, Ripon, Calif., assignor .to

Herbert den Dulk, Ripon, Calif.

Application February 17, 1947, Serial No. 729,157

1 Claim. 1

This invention is directed to, and it is an object to provide, animproved window shutter.

Another object of the invention is to provide a window shutterespecially adapted for use on a door having a Window; the essentialfeature being the provision of means to prevent the shutter fromswinging out and back to strike the door when the latter is opened orclosed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a non-swinging windowshutter, asabove, which includes a mount which does not restrict tiltingof the shutter slats to selected positions of use.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivedevice, and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposefor which it is designed.

These objects are accomplished by means of such structure and relativearrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the followingspecification and claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a cross sectional elevation, foreshortened, of the improvedwindow shutter showing the slats in a substantially horizontal positionof adjustment.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, but shows the slats tilted upwardly.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevation of the window shutter,foreshortened, and partly broken away.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawings, the shutter comprises a pair of vertical, transversely spaceduprights I of relatively rigid material, such as wood, preformed metal,or the like. The uprights l are connected together, in unitary relation,by a fixed head rail 2 disposed adjacent the upper ends of said uprightsl and connected thereto by angle brackets 3.

The head rail 2 is horizontal and projects forwardly, and a facia 4depends from such head rail at its outer edge and at the ends.

The uprights I are connected together, adjacent their lower ends, by ahorizontally disposed bottom tilt rail 5 hinged to said uprights, as at6, for vertical swinging movement. The head rail 2 and the bottom tiltrail 5 extend at the ends somewhat beyond the adjacent uprights I.

Within the pocket 1 formed by the dependent facia 4, the shutterincludes a horizontal top tilt rail 8; such tilt rail 8 being pivoted,for vertical swinging movement, in connection with brackets 9 attachedto, and depending from, the head rail 2 within said pocket I. The tiltrail 8 is adapted to be swung vertically, or rotated, by means of aconventional tilt control mechanism, indicated generally at H).

A window shutter assembly, indicated generally at H, extends between thetop tilt rail 8 and the bottom tilt rail 5, and includes transverselyspaced ladder tapes 12 carrying the window shutter slats l3; said laddertapes being disposed directly in front of the uprights l. The frontstraps of the ladder tapes l2 connect to the top tilt rail 3 and bottomtilt rail 5, as shown at 14 and [5, respectively, whereas the back strapof said ladder tapes are tacked at top and bottom to the correspondingupright l, as shown at It and I1, respectively.

Suspension and tilt control cords 18 extend through the shutter withinthe ladder tapes l2 and are affixed, at opposite ends, to the top andbottom tilt rails, respectively.

Each of the uprights is secured at the top and bottom thereof by screws2! to a door l9 adjacent one side of the window 20 in said door.

When the window shutter is mounted on the door in the manner described,the shutter cannot swing out and back to strike the door when the latteris opened or closed.

In order to prevent the window shutter assem-- bly II from billowingaway from the window 20 intermediate the top and bottom tilt rails whenthe door is opened or closed, the back strap of the ladder tape istacked at the back to the uprights I at vertically spaced points, as at22, except for the upper end portion of said ladder tape, which mustremain free from the uprights l in order to permit of tilting of theslats [3 from the position of Fig. 1, to the position of Fig. 2, inwhich latter position said upper portions of the ladder tapes drawoutwardly somewhat from the uprights. Tilting of the window shutterassembly is accomplished by operation of the mechanism it.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that there hasbeen produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice such deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit ofthe invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, the following is claimed as new anduseful, and upon which Letters Patent are desired:

In combination with a shutter structure which includes top and bottomtilt rails, suspension cords connecting the rails, ladder tapesextending between the rails and including front and back straps andcross tapes at intervals, the front straps being connected to the railsat their front edge, shutter slats supported on the cross tapes, aheadrai1, means pivoting the top tilt rail froinfi th mess a back bf't'heiiointof'cdnnection'of the suspension co'rds therewith"and means mountedon the head rail and operatively connected to the top tilt rail to tiltthe same; a means to mount said structure on a windgwed door comprisinga pair of rigid uprights adapted to be secured on the door to'thefj'sjidefof'lthe windowed area thereof, means rigidly 'c'dnnedting isthe head rail to the uprights, means hir gegly connecting the bottomtilt rail" at the back on the "REFERENCES 'CITEED Thefollowing'referenhs are hf reofd in the 10 file of this patent:

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